I.v. a., to blacken utterly, dye or color very black (very rare; in the Ciceron. per. not at all).
I. Lit.: “terram (amurca),” Varr. R. R. 1, 55 fin.: “lanam,” Plin. 33, 6, 35, § 109: “capillum,” id. 23, 5, 53, § 99: “faciem super carbones,” Vulg. Thren. 4, 8.— *
II. Trop.: honorem famamque alicujus, to blacken, i. e. to asperse, defame, Firm. 5, 10 fin.
